drug addiction

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/21/oregon-drug-law-measure-110-backlash A police officer writes a ticket for smoking drugs in public in downtown Portland, Oregon, on 25 January 2024. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images Oregon How Oregon turned on its own trailblazing...

https://gothamist.com/news/vending-machine-providing-free-birth-control-and-overdose-prevention-products-debuts-in-brooklyn By Brittany Kriegstein Published Jun 5, 2023 Brittany Kriegstein A new vending machine in Brownsville, Brooklyn is attracting lots of attention – but not because...

Last April, The Baltimore Sun ran an op-ed essay by a woman in mourning. Her sister, a “middle-class suburban mom,” had become addicted to alcohol and opioids and died. Two years earlier, The Wall Street Journal published the names and photographs of some of the 300,000 Americans who had died of...

Maybe it's because the way i was raised but i never really sympathized with drug addicts/users. I always looked at them as people who have money to waste and i couldnt relate to their first word problems. Some cultures demonize drug use, even weed. So I have this chick ive known for a while...

I was having this conversation with my homie the other night and the point at issue was whether the average drug addict falls into that cycle because they were already depressed or is it usually some other, external factor that brings them into that world, and then the depression kicks in...